Intel Chipset with Blu-ray for Ultra-thin Laptops
Posted June 2, 2009 06:16 AM by Juan Calonge
At the Computex fair in Taiwan, Intel Corporation has presented Mobile Intel GS40 Express, a value chipset for new ultra-thin laptops. It will feature integrated Blu-ray playback, with native hardware-based decoding of HD video streams (AVC, VC1, MPEG), and native support for digital displays with integrated HDMI with HDCP key.
Additionally, the GS40 Express includes enhanced Intel Clear Video Technology with software features including ProcAmp, high-quality scaling, film-mode detection and correction, MPEG2, and WMV9 hardware acceleration.